The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-10-14
CURRENT EyENTs.

A woman Of Bay City. Mich, disguised
herself ~ man and clerked in 4 store for 4
year and thus obtained admission into the
knights Of Pythias
| Prohibition does prohibit II It docs not
why is u that the saloon-keeper il so anx.
ious to have 1t defeated, when ii would save
an immense tax on the business
Of six young ladies, whose education a.
Vassar cost $4,000 each, five married one
horse ihwt efs aud have TO give music lessons
70 make . living Tor the family. The other
one u stu single, but leaning toward q coun.
try parson on salary Of $500 per year.
a man died at Fairvi0w. Fia., last week, at
The age Of ~, who for fourteen gsars, accord.
ing 70 his dying statement, bad never remain.
ed whole month in one pi4ce. On his death
bed he stated that be killed bis cousin 10 q
quarrel when q boy, and had since been q
wanderer. Some If the subkcribefs 10 coun
Try papers are like this felIow.
Sc. Loaa has awhoeibarrow crazs'' aud
the trade In those humble vehicles is resort.
cd 80 great that manufacturers can hardly
supply the demand. The reason Il that dudes
and their lady friends have aiken to laying
them, aud may hs seen wheeling fach ptber
around almost airy hne evening
Ida Lewis, the hsr ise II Limo Rock, lives
alone 10 the iighf~boasg. her parents being
dead and her brots.er gone to follow the sea
Miss Lewis saved thirt. lives between 1868
and 1881 She dOek aii hrr 0wn hotise work,
keeps the light trimmed and burning. and
l1nds time to faiss few nJwers ip the crev .
lets 0i the rocks 90 the rough Rhode Isiand
coast.
The following examplo going the rounds OF
the press u an easy one "A freight train
one mills ~ length stopped with tho caboese
Jnss opposite the depot The conductor got
orders 70 move bis train 90 the next station.
which was just i've miles disiart. lie gave
the engineer ths order 20 move. which the
latter did while the conductor walked over
ahead on top Of the cars and got there just
- the cngins arrived at the next station,
where he got OF The question il how far did
ne wall, or A. be vas walking the eptire five
miles, did he ride ~ All r. He walked one
mile and roae four miles. that is, he walked
ths length OF the cars AMI rode the rest of
the distance.
a New York City paper gives Governor
Fsnncyer the following interesting notice /:
"Ihirty-hvc years ago Sylvester Pennoycr
was newiy.Aedged lawyer up IN Groton.
Tompkin county. Ills father was farmer,
and the young fellow had spent most Of his
life on the place. When he hung out his
sign as legal adviser the inhabitants Of the
quiet village and the country around did not
keep him awake nights with the cases they
brought for his consideration, 80 he started
one day for the territory Of Oregon, then an
almost unknown region 10 the people Of
New York. lie carried his law diploma
with him, but he never used II, for he could
not wait starvingly for a legal reputation
and fortune IN the thinly.settied new ter.
ritory, and 20 he went to work In lumber
camp, Ike the staiwart farmers son he was
Today he IL one Of the richest lumber men
In Oregon,and last year was elected govern
or OF the state on the Democratic ticket, after
ono OF the most exciting and thoroughly
contested elections that the state has seen for
many years. He Is here now for the first
time since, as an almost penniless young
lawyer. he left to seek his fortune in the far
West in the spring Of 1884. and has been
with his stan at the Centennial celebration
at Philadelphia. lie will visit lss old home
at GFoton before he returns, and will doubt
less meet with hearty reception from The
old timers In that live and ancient burg.